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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 29, 2013 - 11:58pm PT
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That vid made me want to BM to...
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 30, 2013 - 02:19am PT
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profit...lol
What do you think BM is all about?
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Some Random Guy
climber
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Aug 30, 2013 - 11:01am PT
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Not going to Burning Man?
Here's how to enjoy Burning Man from the comfort of your own home...
Pay an escort of your preference to not bathe for five days, cover
themselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, wear a skanky neon wig,
dance naked, then say they have a lover back home at the end of the
night.
Tear down your house. Put it in a truck. Drive 10 hours in any
direction. Put the house back together.
Invite everyone you meet to come over and party. When they leave,
follow them back to their homes, drink all their booze,
and break things.
Stack all your fans in one corner of the living room.
Put on your most fabulous outfit.
Turn the fans on full blast.
Dump a vacuum cleaner bag in front of them.
Buy a new set of expensive camping gear.
Break it.
Lean back in a chair until that point where you're just about to
fall over, but you catch yourself at the last moment.
Hold that position for 9 hours.
Only use the toilet in a house that is at least 3 blocks away.
Drain all the water from the toilet. Only flush it every 3 days.
Hide all the toilet paper.
Set your house thermostat so it's 50 degrees for the first hour
of sleep and 100 degrees the rest of the night.
Before eating any food, drop it in a sandbox and lick a battery.
Spend thousands of dollars and several months of your life building
a deeply personal art work. Hide it in a funhouse on the edge of
the city.
Hire people to come by and alternate saying "I love it" and "dude,
this sucks". Then burn it.
Set up a DJ system downwind of a three alarm fire. Play a short
loop of drum'n'bass until the embers are cold.
Make a list of all the things you'll do different next year.
Never look at it.
Have a 3 a.m. soul baring conversation with a drag nun in platforms,
a crocodile and Bugs Bunny. Be unable to tell if you're hallucinating.
Lust after Bugs Bunny.
Cut, burn, electrocute, bruise, and sunburn various parts of your body.
Forget how you did it. Don't go to a doctor.
"Downsize" last year's camp by adding two geodesic domes, a new sound
system, art car, and 20 newbies.
Don't sleep for 5 days. Take a wide variety of hallucinogenic/emotion
altering drugs. Pick a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend, or both.
Spend a whole year rummaging through thrift stores for the perfect,
most outrageous costume. Forget to pack it.
Shop at Wal-mart, Cost-Co, and Home Depot until your car is completely
packed with stuff.
Tell everyone that you're going to a "Leave-No-Trace" event.
Empty your car into a dumpster.
Listen to music you hate for 168 hours straight, or until you
think you are going to scream. Scream.
Realize you'll love the music for the rest of your life.
Spend 5 months planning a "theme camp" like it's the
invasion of Normandy.
Spend Monday-Wednesday building the camp.
Spend Thurs-Sunday nowhere near camp because you're sick of it
or can't find it.
Walk around your neighborhood and knock on doors until someone
offers you cocktails and dinner.
Bust your ass for a "community." See all the attention get focused
on the drama queen crybaby.
Get so drunk you can't recognize your own house.
Walk slowly around the block for 5 hours.
Tell your boss you aren't coming to work this week but he should
"gift" you a paycheck anyway. When he refuses accuse him of not
loving the "community".
Search alleys until you find a couch so unbelievably tacky and
nasty filthy that a state college frat house wouldn't want it.
Take a nap on the couch and sleep like you are king of the world.
Ask your most annoying neighbor to interrupt your fun several
times a day with third hand gossip about every horrible thing
that's happened in the last 24 hours.
Have them wear khaki.
Go to a museum. Find one of Salvador Dali's more disturbing,
but beautiful paintings.
Climb inside it.
FVKCING HILARIOUS! and so very very true
most of it is just fvkced up party fun but this is the part that really pisses me off!!!!!!!!!!
flakes.......
Shop at Wal-mart, Cost-Co, and Home Depot until your car is completely
packed with stuff.
Tell everyone that you're going to a "Leave-No-Trace" event.
Empty your car into a dumpster.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 30, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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I wonder how many homes Habitat For Humanity could build with all the money
that gets wasted on BM. And I'd love to see the 'carbon footprint' of all
those people getting there and burning sh!t up there.
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Crackslayer
Trad climber
Eldo
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Aug 30, 2013 - 12:28pm PT
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Y'all should get jobs.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Aug 30, 2013 - 01:03pm PT
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I wonder how many homes Habitat For Humanity could build with all the money
that gets wasted on BM. And I'd love to see the 'carbon footprint' of all
those people getting there and burning sh!t up there.
There's actually a group, Burners Without Borders, that collects lumber and repurposes it for humanitarian building projects. A lot of homes in New Orleans have lumber from Burning Man in them.
http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Aug 30, 2013 - 01:11pm PT
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Reilly writes:
"And I'd love to see the 'carbon footprint' of all those people getting there and burning sh!t up there."
The wrong thing done for the right reason is still the wro ...
Uh, never mind.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Aug 30, 2013 - 11:35pm PT
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Squishy, I absolutely, completely, and with %100 confidence wish I could kill you.
Why you ask?
Because you managed to write my exact feelings for one of the most worthless wastes of time, resources and money on the planet. Not to mention the vacuous ramblings of people who really do not serve any function or purpose whatsoever.
You beat me to it!
On the other hand, I salute you!!!!
Anytime you are in JT, look me up. I owe you a beer.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 31, 2013 - 01:33am PT
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Lawyers, insurance executives, bankers, trust fund mgrs, and the like trying to pretend they didn't sell out to the "American Dream"..... gag me with a spoon.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Aug 31, 2013 - 02:51am PT
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rather spend my money at the mustang ranch which is less of a drive and more rewarding,
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 31, 2013 - 07:53am PT
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rather spend my money at the mustang ranch which is less of a drive and more rewarding,
Man, I could tell you some stories about the days I was stationed at Fallon Naval Air Station, not too far from the M.R.....
(:
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Aug 31, 2013 - 09:13am PT
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Reading Festival debris=unfuking real. Who'd even want to pay money to see that kind of sh#t?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 31, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
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SLR didn't say he was a customer. He could have been the designated driver.
However, we do know that he was a gud 'stick' in his day.
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City (CC,NV)
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As this was my 12th year going I can definitely say things have changed. If you want to find the initial feeling I had about it 12 years ago you have to search for it. It is still an incredible place but I hate to admit it but it has turned into a "pissing contest" of who has the best camp blah blah blah.
I left early this year because i just wasn't into it as I was in the past. I went in early to help set up our camp and I see 40-60 rvs being pre set up for weekend warriors complete with hundreds of bikes and generators. Gave me a bad taste.
Then there were freaking tour buses coming in to show people Burningman....little old ladies with cameras ........tour buses??!!!
WTF.
Plus LEO were completely out if control.....pulling people over for driving 6mph and if you didn't consent to search.....K9 called in and a 500 dollar fine for that "bud" they found. Pulling people over because bike racks partially covered license plates....fined
Sh#t everyone in Tahoe should be pulled over twice a week for that one!!!
275 ticket for pissing on the playa.....good luck finding a pisser every time.
So I decided I would much rather spend my birthday weekend with my family, rolling in the grass with my dogs, and not be a tourist attraction.
It was and is an incredible t place but I think I will put my efforts into things that matter more to me..........
Maybe it will change. Peace out playa
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Just go this time NEXT month. You'll have the whole f*#king place all to yourself. YOU can make the rules! Do whatever the hell you want, and nobody will care because nobody will even be there but YOU. The weather will be better next month too.
Hipsters, trenders, and HERD followers. Not a free thinker in the bunch.
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enjoimx
Trad climber
SLO
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Yeah it's a total popularity contest. Nothing is free, social obligations exist and you may not like the terms.
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Argon
climber
North Bay, CA
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On our way back from our first Burning Man. Squishy nailed it and I agree with just about every comment here - but we had a fantastic time and will definitely go again. The burning of the man last night was truly spectacular. People did comment about the BLM and county sherifff LEO presence - but they seemed pretty invisible and/or tolerant to me. Maybe I was lucky to avoid those $275 tickets.
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portent
Social climber
your mom's house
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And I'd love to see the 'carbon footprint' of all
those people getting there and burning sh!t up there.
Head to the Grand Sierra in Reno afterwords. They put dumpster in their parking lots and it's f*#king unbelievable the sh#t that is tossed.
Brand new bikes, coolers, all types of non-biodegradable good. Got to love it...
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
California
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Just back, it was my first. Worked in the clinic, got a free ticket and had an excellent experience all around. The scale is what blew me away more than anything.
While I don't care all that much for the primary music genre, I had a great time. I'm sure the vibe was way greater many years ago, blah blah but I don't know of any other place where 70,000 people can get together in a place where just about everything is a hazard, consume that much alcohol and mind altering substances and not have a complete meltdown on a massive scale. Most of the participants realize they are part of something special and treat that week as such. How special the event is has probably changed and will for years to come. Be thankful you got there when it was still "cool".
Anyone who thinks there is anything environmentally sound about that event in any way has their head way down in the dust. It is more of a disappearing act on a grand scale more than anything. Here one week, gone, for the most part, in a couple.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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The best two things you are going to get out of Burning Man is a social disease and a horrible case of the crabs...
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